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Clatsop man and woman, Banjo Louie and Jennie Michele, on steps of house near Seaside, now known as Indian Point (Oregon)

Natural History Museum

Object Details

Names

Michell, Jennie
Tsin-is-tum

Scope and Contents

Banjo Louie was so called because he played the banjo. The old lady could recall the Astoria men, and was supposed to have been 110 when she died. According to letter of Mrs Tuthill, April 12, 1966, Jennie Michele or Michell, "the last of the Clatsop Indians," is mentioned in "Clatsop County, its History, Legends and Industries," by Emma Gene Miller, 1958. Her Indian name is there given as Tsin-is-tum. She was born in the vicinity of Seaside or Astoria in 1816 and died in 1905. In 1900 she went with a committee from the Oregon Historical Society to show them the location of Fort Clatsop.
sova.naa.photolot.176_ref7557

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f487d1e4-0c82-4e97-9bed-3f61e6a85ad9

Local Numbers

OPPS NEG.55744

Local Note

Black and white copy negative

Place

Oregon -- Seaside
Oregon -- Indian Point

Topic

Clallam (Klallam)

Culture

Clatsop
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
S'Klallam (Klallam)

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Extent

1 Photograph (8x10 in)

Date

1905 or earlier

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Type

Archival materials
Photographs

Genre/Form

Photographs
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref7557
Large EAD
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NAA

Record ID

ebl-1628267668517-1628267670517-6

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